[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 47 (Monday, March 11, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Page 10889]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-5685]


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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Rural Utilities Service


East Kentucky Power Association; Notice of Finding of No 
Significant Impact

AGENCY: Rural Utilities Service, USDA.

ACTION: Notice of finding of no significant impact.

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SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that the Rural Utilities Service (RUS) 
has made a finding of no significant impact with respect to the 
construction and operation of two, 268 megawatt coal-fired electric 
generation units in Mason County, Kentucky. East Kentucky Power 
Association proposes to construct and operate the units. The Rural 
Utilities Service (RUS) may provide financing for the two units.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Bob Quigel, Environmental Protection 
Specialist, Engineering and Environmental Staff, RUS, Stop 1571, 1400 
Independence Avenue, SW, Washington, DC 20250-1571, telephone (202) 
720-0468, e-mail at [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: East Kentucky Power Cooperative proposes to 
construct two, 268-megawatt coal fired electric generation units at its 
Spurlock Station in Maysville, Kentucky. Maysville is located in Mason 
County along the Ohio River. The two new generation units are to be 
named Gilbert Units 3 and 4. The units would consist of two circulating 
fluidized bed boilers, two turbine-generators, two baghouses, two 
sulfur dioxide removal systems, two selective non-catalytic reduction 
units, and two 720-foot stacks. The project would also include a 
double-circuit 345-kilovolt transmission line from the Spurlock Station 
to an existing 345-kV transmission line in Brown County, Ohio. The 
length of the transmission line would be approximately 3.5 miles and 
would parallel an existing 138 kV transmission line that crosses the 
Ohio River. Further details of the project are provided in the 
environmental assessment.
    Copies of the Finding of No Significant Impact are available from 
RUS at the address provided herein or from Mr. Bob Hughes of East 
Kentucky Power Association, P.O. Box 707, Winchester, Kentucky 40391; 
telephone (859) 744-4812 Mr. Hughes's e-mail address is [email protected]. 
Copies of the environmental assessment are available for review at East 
Kentucky Power Association and RUS at the addresses provided herein.

    Dated: March 4, 2002.
Blaine D. Stockton,
Assistant Administrator, Electric Program, Rural Utilities Service.
[FR Doc. 02-5685 Filed 3-8-02; 8:45 am]
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